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Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#destiny #fate-destiny #free-will #fulfillment #happiness

Dad always says, 'If you can't stand out, then you should just sit down. ↗

— Karsten Knight

#karsten-knight #wildefire #inspirational

Be more weary of the fearful than of the brave. ↗

— Meeta Ahluwalia

#wisdom-inspirational #wisdom-quote #inspirational

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will. ↗

— Fernán Caballero

#force #inspirational #power #steam #will

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others. ↗

— David Benioff

#history #inspirational #jewish #jews #pessimism

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#wisdom #inspirational

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . . ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#inspirational #wilderness #inspirational

Isabelle rolled her eyes. "Oh, for the Angel's sake. Look, if there's no other way of getting out of this, I'll kiss Simon. I've done it before, it wasn't that bad." "Thanks," said Simon. "That's very flattering." "Well, I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever's an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don't you?" Simon threw up his hands in exasperation. "Of course not. But if—" "I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #kissing #simon-lewis #men

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns? ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#the-little-prince #wise #inspirational

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#inspiration #life #wisdom #inspirational